MCA Youth said it would join a peaceful picket near the United States Embassy in Kuala Lumpur at 10pm tonight.

Party wing deputy chief Mike Chong Yew Chuan said MCA Youth would join the “Siege for Palestine” picket, organised by Solidarity with Palestine Secretariat, to call for a halt to atrocities being committed by Israeli forces in Palestine.

“We share the stance of more than 60 organisations including civil society organisations, university students’ movements and political entities, that the atrocities of the Israel Defence Forces in Palestine must be stopped immediately.

“This picket, symbolic of the siege of Gaza, will last for five days from tonight. Among others, it is to pressure the international community to help work for an immediate ceasefire,” he said in a statement today.

He said MCA Youth wanted to put a stop to the destruction of Gaza as more than 20,000 people have been killed in the territory since the outbreak of hostilities on October 7.

On October 30, MCA Youth handed over a memorandum to Palestine’s Ambassador to Malaysia Walid Abu Ali to express its support for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. – Bernama, December 26, 2023.